[apps-discuss] Content Types for Fonts?

Tobias Gondrom <tobias.gondrom@gondrom.org> Thu, 24 March 2011 19:52 UTC

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Hello all,

maybe someone here can give some help/advice on this.
At websec we have a draft on Mime type sniffing algorithms to improve on
consistency of browser algorithms for mime type determination (and by
thus improve security):
http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-websec-mime-sniff-02.txt

Recently a comment came up with regard to identifying fonts (e.g.
referenced in style sheets).
AFAIK fonts don't have registered mime/content types, so browsers
already just use sniffing algorithms for them.
And without them having a registered content/mime type, it's kind of a
flawed logic to add this to the draft for mime sniffing.

On the other hand it might make sense to add content types for fonts to
the IANA registry?
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html

Has that ever come up? Or are they already registered and I missed them?
Or is this a bad idea?

Any opinions welcome...

BR, Tobias
(websec chair)